Sold/Expired FM-D26 Bi-Pin socket/Reflector

Hi Folks,
Here is another creation from FIVEMEGA.
A bi-pin socket/reflector that can be used instead of D26 lamp assembly.
This is not a sale or pre order thread but just introducing coming soon product.
No more $25-$30 lamp assembly poof.
Simply insert a bi pin bulb of your choice into the socket, install the bi pin socket in reflector, focus it the way you prefer and ready to use.
Possibilities:
Strion bulb to use with single li-ion 17670 in $urefire 6P
Scorpion bulb to use with 2x123 primaries in $urefire 6P
TL-3 bulb to use with 2 li-ion cells or 3x123 primaries in $urefire 9P (LOLA)
1499 bulb to use with 2 li-ion cells or 3x123 primaries in $urefire 9P (HOLA)
22 Watt axial bulb to use with 3 li-ion cells in $urefire 9P with extension.
There are many other T-1.5 bulbs to use with this socket/reflector in different battery configuration.
Advantages:
Low cost bulb. ($6 for Strion or TL-3 / $10 for H1499)
Many possiblity and choice.
Easily convertible from 3.7 volt to 7.2 and....
Choice of different textured reflector for throw or flood. (SMO or MOP)
Choice of getting extra reflector.
Focusable as you wish.
And since the bulb is removable, you can also frost it half way down, 2/3 or entierly for excellent soft quality beam.
Price will be:
$24 for socket/reflector (No bulb included)
$12 each extra reflector.
$6 Strion bulb
$6 TL-3 bulb
Please do not pay at this time.
Any comment welcome.

there goes my brain cell again.. i almost get a plan together, then whamo, here's a new one to think about. great work, really. this place is the best.

I would take a couple.

I'd buy one

Varooj, you do have a way of coming up with stuff I discover I absolutely need to have...

Sigh....another paycheck down the drain...

-RDH

I would buy one if I could also purchase a couple of 22 Watt axial bulbs. Do you have them in stock?

Put me down for one

Cool,
I'm in for one with an extra reflector.

fivemega said:

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Choice of different textured reflector for throw or flood. (SMO or MOP)
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How about a MS/HS reflector for us FloodFreaks?

(Well, I can dream, can't I?)

-RDH

Count me in for at least one.

rdh226 said:

Sigh....another paycheck down the drain...

-RDH

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A paycheck? How many FM-D26 do you need? Couple of hundred?
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elnino said:

I would buy one if I could also purchase a couple of 22 Watt axial bulbs. Do you have them in stock?

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Sure do.
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rcnuk said:

Cool,
I'm in for one with an extra socket.

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Extra socket or extra reflector?
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rdh226 said:

How about a MS/HS reflector for us FloodFreaks?

-RDH

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Don't you think frosting a bulb with even SMO reflector will give you better result? And will be reversible with replacing bulb. You can also control dense of frosting by amount of etching time also amount of bulb surface.
Worth to test and try with inexpensive bulb such as WA1185.

Must of had sockets on the brain:laughing:

I'm in for one with an extra reflector.

fivemega said:

Extra socket or extra reflector?
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fivemega said:

A paycheck? How many FM-D26 do you need? Couple of hundred?
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(Laughs) No, it's not that I need a hundred (several will do), but that after the mortgage,
and a coupla your C-LiIon lightsabres, and the new windshield for my car, and oh yeah, a
couple of dinners, and maybe even some breakfasts . . . not to mention whatever other
neatnewnifty gotta-haves you're about to foist on me.

Extra socket or extra reflector?
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Oh, I see, the socket are reflectors are mix'n'match components. Cool!

Don't you think frosting a bulb with even SMO reflector will give you better result? And will be reversible with replacing bulb. You can also control dense of frosting by amount of etching time also amount of bulb surface.
Worth to test and try with inexpensive bulb such as WA1185.

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Frosting the bulb absorbs light, HS whaps it around but still throws the photons out
the front end of light (mostly, anyways) dazed, confused and spining, but still out the
front; frosted bulbs dent them and drop them on the floor, dim dark and useless.
(OK, kinda waxing metaphorically here...)

I know that the HS reflectors in your Mag85 and other lights generates a truly
Magnificent wall of light, and has made of me an HS-addict. OP merely smushes out
that annoying hot spot (duck under desk to avoid tomatoes and chairs and other
objects thrown at me by all you silly throw-bigots), while the HS almost completely
eradicates it, putting all those photons to use in a veritable photon broadside blast,
annihilating the Dark and Shadowy.

-RDH

Could this be used in a 3P with a 3.7 Li-ion? Which bulb would work?

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Could this be used in a 3P with a 3.7 Li-ion? Which bulb would work?

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CL723
CL888
CL1002
CL1003
CL1047*
Strion*
*=3C

I'm in for 2 sockets with both reflectors.

Thanks,

Bob

I'm interested in one MOP and one SMO and a one each spare reflector.

Just for fun:

G4 socket and T2.25 reflector options ??

Fantastic idea Varooj what about an LED heat sink (P4) to fit the reflector so as I can build a quality LED dropin with the driver of my choosing instead of the rubbish dropins currently available. I have yet to try one with a decent tint or output.
Norm

Hi, Fivemega. Would T2-1/4 lamps fit easily into these sockets? I just don't want to end up having to bend the pins too much, if in fact they are different.

ben